Ulf Harnhammar discovered that Evolution is vulnerable to format string
bugs when viewing attached vCards and when displaying contact
information from remote LDAP servers or task list data from remote
servers (CAN-2005-2549). He also discovered that Evolution fails to
handle special calendar entries if the user switches to the Calendars
tab (CAN-2005-2550).

Impact
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An attacker could attach specially crafted vCards to emails or setup
malicious LDAP servers or calendar entries which would trigger the
format string vulnerabilities when viewed or accessed from Evolution.
This could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code with
the rights of the user running Evolution.

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200508-12.xml

Concerns?
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